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Rating: - A GREAT WOLVERINE FIGURE!!
I had very few favorite Wolverine figures from ToyBiz, but I have to make room for this one. It's fantastic!! The figure has really only one, tiny issue: his waist joint is very loose and allows him to spin around too much when you don't want him to. However, this is such a small issue, you'll never even care. I thought this was unique to the figure I bought, but after I read the other reviews, I knew this wasn't true. His body sculpt is new and is in perfect scale for the character since Wolverine is supposed to be 5 feet 3 inches. He blends in well with other Marvel Legends figures. The articulation is excellent and the joints-other than the waist-are tight and well concealed. Especially where his legs and boots come together. Another great thing about this Wolverine figure is that he comes with nice, long claws. And, they're pretty darn straight, too. ToyBiz did a good job packaging this figure to make sure the claws looked good when you take him out. Wolverine is sporting a newer costume design and the paint job on the figure is just fine. His costume is based on his appearance in the Astonishing X-Men comic books. Which brings me to the subject of the comic book that comes with the figure. It is a copy of Astonishing X-Men #6. It's part of a real recent X-Men story and has some inappropriate "four-letter" words in it--not the kind of comic book that I would want my 4-12 year old reading after buying this toy. Considering that is the age group these toys are geared to, ToyBiz should be responsible enough to select a better issue for youngsters to read. I don't care what you think your kids are hearing at home or at school that's worse, they shouldn't have to be exposed to it in the toys they play with. There is another version of this figure available. It's exactly the same figure and comic except the head sculpt is different. Wolverine's mask is off and is hanging around the back of his neck. It's a nice head sculpt and worth getting. You never see Wolverine with his mask off in the comic that comes with the figure, so it's more or less for collectors and die-hard Wolverine fans. Both are very nice figures, but it's up to you whether you want your Wolverine masked or unmasked. This series is called the Apocalypse Series because, as in past series, the 6 figures have a piece of the 7th, larger figure-Apocalypse. Apocalypse is a 5,000-year-old mutant and an arch nemesis of the X-Men. He turns out to be 14 inches tall and he looks really, really good when he is all assembled. He IS the best one in the series. Most people probably won't consider the character selection in this series to be the best, so it was a good idea for ToyBiz to release these figures this way. Personally, I love the character selection AND the idea of building another, larger figure. They should continue it in future releases. Everyone will want to put together their own Apocalypse since he was very hard to get when he made his 6-inch appearance in Marvel Legends 7. Between the two versions of this figure, it's should be easy to purchase one or the other, so if you want him for the Apocalypse piece or not, you're still getting a great action figure that plays and displays nicely. If the comic didn't have the swear words, I would have given it 5 stars.

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